Published : 2021 || Format : print || Location : Colombia ☆ ☆ ☆ ☆ ☆ What was it about the country that kept everyone hostage to its fantasy? The previous month, on its own soil, an American man went to his job at a plant and gunned down fourteen coworkers, and last spring alone there were four different school shootings. A nation at war with itself, yet people still spoke of it as some kind of paradise.. Thoughts : Infinite Country follows two characters - young Talia, who at the beginning of this book, escapes a girl’s reform school in North Colombia so that she can make her previously booked flight to the US. Before she can do that, she needs to travel many miles to reach her father and get her ticket to the rest of her family. As we follow Talia’s treacherous journey south, we learn about how she ended up in the reform school in the first place and why half her family resides in the US. Infinite Country tells the story of her family through the other protagonist, El
Books in the Bag is a feature where Mailbox Monday meets Library Loot.
This week, my book bag just exploded. Literally. I had a few books come in the mail and a huge bunch from the library. I'm surprised by how many I brought in from the library, because I usually have trouble randomly choosing books. This time though, I plonked myself down in front of the graphic nonfiction shelves and took as many as I could.
These three books came in the mail.



When I looted my library this week, these are the fiction titles I brought home:




Finally, these are the graphic novels I plundered:





So that's the wonderful pile staring at me now - leading to my other big problem in life - which one do I start with?

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